To be fair, Lincoln hired the Pinkertons for security during the war, who later committed some of the most vile and atrocious actions against the organization of labor. So Walker is marginally-correct.

Walker said his reforms were "similar, NOT THE SAME," as Lincoln's. He would never try and compare himself to Lincoln, it's just, you know, he's similar to Lincoln. And taking away part of the right to collective bargaining is just so similar - BUT NOT THE SAME, YOU LIBERAL SCUM - to taking away people's right to own other people.

Here's the official list of things that are appropriate to compare to slavery:

Slavery.

If the thing you are about to compare to slavery does not appear on this list, think twice before making it known to the world that you are an insensitive clueless idiot who has never actually suffered a day in your life.

UNC_Samurai:To be fair, Lincoln hired the Pinkertons for security during the war, who later committed some of the most vile and atrocious actions against the organization of labor. So Walker is marginally-correct.

Sort of. Pinkerton was head of the forerunner of the Secret Service and then went off after the war and founded the Pinkertons.

He'd founded a railroad police agency before the war, which was probably how Lincoln (a railroad lawyer) knew him.

OK, Walker is asked why his book doesn't cover his failed pledge to add 250,000 jobs, and instead focuses only on his successful efforts to limit collective bargaining for most state employees.

Walker says the book's purpose was the collective bargaining aspect of his governorship. He then points out that Spielberg did much the same thing when he made Lincoln, zeroing in on one aspect of the book from which the movie was based.